Gartrell is said to have stated that Trad had called him to ask if the deal could be pushed over the line.<\/p>\n
After Johnson wrote to delivery authority boss Graeme Newton that night to lay out how he believed the contractors had adhered to best practice principles, his notes from a 6.30am meeting the following morning with Martyn-Jones and Gartrell Trad had \u201cpulled\u201d the deal, which he described as meaning believed would not be finalised by June 30.<\/p>\n
This \u201cstalemate\u201d is then left with the delivery authority representatives, before a 9.40am meeting in which an additional letter was presented to Johnson\u2019s team for signing.<\/p>\n
Johnson says this was then later sent to him, and the inquiry is shown this came in a bundle of documents via Martyn-Jones using an \u201cobviously unusual\u201d Hotmail email address.<\/p>\n
This letter included taking \u201crelevant clauses for the agreement from the Queen\u2019s Wharf enterprise agreement\u201d and the issuing of a \u201csubcontractor briefing pack to the market, including a signed copy of the agreement\u201d based on the Queen\u2019s Wharf subcontractor briefing pack.<\/p>\n
Johnson says while his team had agreed that if it could accommodate clauses from the Queen\u2019s Wharf agreement, it would, but not further than that given the view that this was an attempted workaround of the federal building code.<\/p>\n
That was \u201cgoing to be unacceptable to us\u201d, he says, though Queen\u2019s Wharf base pay rates were ultimately agreed to.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy that time, we figured that unless we conceded to those rates of pay, we were going to get nowhere. So we did that,\u201d Johnson says. The deal is ultimately struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gartrell is said to have stated that Trad had called him to ask if the deal could be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-550048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}